A few days ago CNN had a story about the last surviving United States veteran of World War I, Frank Buckles. He is 107 years old.
He lives about an hour away and was recently in Washington DC to advocate for repair of the World War I Memorial. Honoring 26,000 Washingtonians who served in World War I, it has been neglected for quite some time. Buckles and others hope to that by getting it changed into a national monument it will not be left to fall apart.
I walked across the National Mall during lunch on Tuesday to see it since I had last stumbled upon it about six years ago. The Memorial is slightly off the beaten path, a bandshell nestled among the trees to the side of the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool. You could probably sit there for hours unbothered by the tour groups that crowd the other veterans memorials nearby.
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